The Fed Is Holding Interest Rates Steady. This Won’t Last Much Longer.
The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announced today that it will maintain the current target policy interest rate...
Is Increased Consumer Spending Good for the Economy?
Just about every so-called business periodical touts an increase in consumer spending as “good for the economy.” But is this...
How Should Government Police the Public Domain?
A sizable advantage Murray Rothbard’s approach to libertarianism – that is, one based in private property – has over other...
Student Loans Are the ‘Fudge Factor’ That Allows Institutional Profiteering
Imagine an American college or university president making the following public statement: “I regret that my institution, along with many...
Fear Is the Mind Killer: America’s Dangerous Obsession With ‘Safety’
In modern America, an obsessive fixation on “safety” has given rise to a culture of fear, paralyzing action and warping...
Does Justice Sotomayor Write Her Decisions in Crayon?
Following last week’s decisions, which represented a significant blow to the American administrative state, today, the Supreme Court did what...
From Profits to Pandering: How Government Turned Universities and Businesses Into DEI Bureaucracies
The Board of Trustees at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, on May 13, announced that they would...
Higher Education Too Often Values Second-Rate Economics Research Over Teaching
People act according to incentives, and university professors are no exception. Professors receive tenure and promotion based largely on the...
The Vietnamization of Ukraine
As Ukraine’s defeat in the war moves closer, the neocons are desperate to draw the US further into the fight....
Public Schools and the State’s Omnipotent Bayonet
From everything I read you would think we were incapable of solving social problems. In truth, we find matters only...